About The Event

The SAFe Agilist certification program is for Executives, Managers and Agile Change Agents responsible for leading a Lean and Agile change initiative in a large Software Enterprise.

The certification class taught by Scaled Program Consultant is for 2 days on Leading SAFe course.

The 2 days classroom training validates participant’s knowledge in applying the Scaled Agile Framework, lean thinking, and product development flow principles in an enterprise context, after attending the Leading SAFe course participants can lead an Enterprise Agile transformation by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework, and its underlying principles of lean thinking, and product development flow.

Apply Lean, Agile, and Product Development flow principles to improve productivity, employee engagement, time to market, and quality

Apply the Scaled Agile Framework based on lecture, real-world examples, and insights by Scaled Agile experts

Understanding the skills necessary for an Enterprise transformation based on the information and examples presented, and additional recommended readings and resources

Gain the insights into the leadership skill most effective in unlocking the intrinsic motivation of software development knowledge workers, and begin applying them in real context

Acquire all the knowledge required to be successful in their SAFe journey

Session Outline

Day -1

Introduction to SAFe: This module will be ‘Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework’ and learning focus will be on understanding the foundation & core of the framework

Lean Thinking: This module will be ‘An overview of lean software development and product development’ and learning focus will be to appreciate lean thinking and its need in business

Agile development: This module will teach all about ‘Application of Agile development in the enterprise context’. And its business benefits

SAFe Scrum XP: The Last module for the day will be ‘An Experimental walk through of” SAFe scrum XP” focusing on scalable technical, project management and economic prioritization practices” that enable scaling to the program and portfolio level

Day-2

Agile release train: On day two start will be focused on ‘Identification, implementation and execution of Agile Release Trains’ which are long-lived programs. Learning focus will be on how teams-of-agile-teams optimize quality and velocity delivery for the enterprises larger value streams

Agile portfolio management: Learning focus of this module will be ‘Agile transformational patterns for Strategy and Investment Funding, Program Management, and Governance’ and how it happens in Enterprise context

Agile Architecture: Module will explain ‘Principles of Agile architecture, role of system and enterprise architects and architecting with flow’

Priyank DK Pathak is an Agile Expert & Curator of Innovation Roots, a leading consulting company providing education, skill transfer, and mentoring customers for nurturing & developing skills required for agile software development practices and methodologies based on the core Agile-Lean Values and Principles.

Priyank is the first wave of Agile in India, and an active contributor to Agile Community by forming Agile Network India, Scaling Agile meetup, Innovation Games meetup, Agile Leadership & Management meetup, and by Reviewing Agile & Scrum Gatherings. He is semi-frequent Speaker at all major agile conferences.

He trained thousands plus people on Agile, Scrum and SAFe ways of working in past years.